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by furnishing school-houses, and furniture, Homes for the teachers, Transportation, and in many other ways. This aid cannot be accurately estimated in dollars and cents. Northern Freedmen's Aid Societies have nobly borne the major part of the expenses for the colored schools thus far. They expended not less than $35,000, for the support of such schools in the cities of Washington and Georgetown, during the last scholastic year, that is from September 1865. to July 1866. and more is being expended this year than last. About 4000 children are being taught by 70 teachers who are wholly sustained by Northern Societies.
Several years ago taxation was ordered for the support of white schools in Washington and Georgetown D.C. For this purpose a poll tax of $1,00 was required of each legal voter, and there was also a tax of 10 cents on every $100,00 of taxable property. This system of taxation was continued until 1865, when it was done away with by the Washington city authorities for the purpose of avoiding payment of "the proportionate part thereof, applicable under existing provisions of law" to the Trustees of colored schools, according to the 18th section of the Act of June 25, 1864, They assessed a larger general tax, and drew from it for the support of white schools alone. but afterward being convinced that their failure to levy a school tax would not releive them from their legal obligation to pay the trustees of colored schools, "such proportionate part according to the amount expended for white schools.